# Cult Movies You Love **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 30, 2010, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378 "2010-03-30T20:00:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/1 "2010-03-30T20:00:21Z")
So, the local actor’s theatre holds Cult Movie Mondays on the last Monday of every month. Admission is free and so is the popcorn. They do collect donations to support their local plays and all that - and I usually kick in a fiver. But still - it’s a fun night out. Now, I’ll be the first to admit that the only real Cult Movie classics I thought of at first was _Rocky Horror Picture Show_. And indeed, they did show that at Halloween last year - with a live cast who acted things out - and little RHPS kits that you could buy so you could do all the actions at the right time. But this monthly event has also introduced me to some other movies I had never seen before like: [ul] [li]_Cleopatra Jones_[/li][li]_Army of Darkness: Evil Dead 3_[/li][li]\*Grey Gardens \*(the original 1970s documentary)[/li][li]\*Death Race 2000 \*(which I just saw last night)[/li][li]_Psycho Beach Party_[/li][/ul] In addition, they’ve shown: [ul] [li]_Kentucky Fried Movie_[/li][li]_Lost Boys_[/li][li]_The Nightmare Before Christmas_[/li][li]_To Wong Foo, With Love_[/li][/ul] I’m really loving discovering these movies. It’s been a hoot and a half. So, I was wondering - what other cult classic movies do you love to watch? ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/2 "2010-03-30T20:04:40Z")
The Big Lebowski ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/3 "2010-03-30T20:05:21Z")
I don’t know if it is a true cult movie but **Heathers** is one of my all time favorites and the same for **Best in Show**. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/4 "2010-03-30T20:05:57Z")
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/5 "2010-03-30T20:07:20Z")
**Schizopolis** **Withnail And I** Don’t know if these count as cult movies, but if so, I’d add **Better Off Dead** and **Miller’s Crossing**. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/6 "2010-03-30T20:07:58Z")
_ **Freddy Got Fingered** _. Yeah. I’m that guy. ---
**Author:** ![Simmerdown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simmerdown/32/14859_2.png) [@Simmerdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simmerdown)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/7 "2010-03-30T20:10:54Z")
Don’t know if it’s really a cult movie, but it should be: _ **Shakes the Clown** _. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/8 "2010-03-30T20:22:15Z")
\*\*\*Freaks \*\*\*does it for me. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/9 "2010-03-30T20:38:42Z")
Not sure if these qualify as cult movies or not, but: Harold and Maude The Last Dragon I also enjoy rock-related movies, especially the older ones – like the Beatles movies, _200 Motels_, and (from a few years later on) _Rock & Roll High School_. Plus concert movies like _Monterey Pop, Woodstock, Message to Love, Gimme Shelter, Don’t Look Back,_ etc. Also a fan of old animation, like _Gulliver’s Travels, Fantasia,_ and (not quite so old) _Fantastic Planet._ ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/10 "2010-03-30T20:46:56Z")
Caddyshack Waiting For Guffman Stripes Murder By Death Best In Show ---
**Author:** ![Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/11 "2010-03-30T20:53:19Z")
**Mad Dog and Glory** - too high profile cast (de Niro, Murray and Thurman) to qualify as a cult movie I guess, but as far as I know it wasn’t well received and isn’t well known, but I love it. Definitely worth seeing. One IMDB reviewer sums it up as “Pretty Woman” meets “Fargo”. Which is fair enough in that it’s partly “creepy romantic fairy tale”, but it’s much better than PW. Also, for some reason I actually _liked_ **Tank Girl**. Oh, and **DEBS** was fun. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/12 "2010-03-30T20:59:48Z")
_Two-Lane Blacktop Phantom of the Paradise_ and we can’t forget _The Rocky Horror Picture Show_! ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/13 "2010-03-30T21:09:51Z")
**Repo Man** ---
**Author:** ![filling\_pages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@filling\_pages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filling_pages)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/14 "2010-03-30T21:25:19Z")
**Freeway** - my favorite movie of all time. Reece Witherspoon as a semi-illiterate, trailer trash little red riding hood. **Suburbia** - the 80s, punk one directed by Penelope Spheeris. The acting is oh, so bad, which makes the movie so, so much better. **Black Mama, White Mama** - You got your women in prison movie in my blaxsploitation flick! Well, you got your blaxsploitation flick in my women in prison movie! It’s two great tastes that taste great together. Also, boobs. **The Loved One** - I am willing to bet that John Waters saw and loved this movie. And, on that note, any John Waters movie. ---
**Author:** ![sulamith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@sulamith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sulamith)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/15 "2010-03-31T00:58:32Z")
Harold and Maude (cjepson beat me to it!) Them Drop Dead Fred Kingpin ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/16 "2010-03-31T01:26:48Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > Caddyshack > Waiting For Guffman > Stripes > Murder By Death > Best In Show Caddyshack and Stripes are cult movies? ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/17 "2010-03-31T01:45:10Z")
> [@RikWriter](#): > > Caddyshack and Stripes are cult movies? In my definition, absolutely they are… ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/18 "2010-03-31T01:55:58Z")
Phantom of the Paradise The Loved One ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/19 "2010-03-31T02:11:15Z")
\*\*They Live The Boondock Saints Serenity\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378/20 "2010-03-31T02:13:08Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > _ **Freddy Got Fingered** _. Yeah. I’m that guy. Don’t worry so am I. Well I liked it when I saw it, I’ve only seen it once though. I did like it and would probably watch it again. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cult-movies-you-love/534378.md?page=2)